The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has proposed rolling back an Obama-era regulation that allowed union dues to be deducted from Medicaid checks. This would stop the automatic dues deduction of homecare workers who never neither voted for the union or receive any…

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton received thousands of signatures from union members seeking to end one of the largest bargaining units in history. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) formed the bargaining unit in 2014 after claiming to have organized 27,000 people who are registered as Personal Care Assistants. The PCAs were not traditional employees,…

Minnesota Home Healthcare workers are permitted to unionize. While this ruling does not have much impact for most of our readers, the backstory should resonate with you. Minnesota passed a law that allowed collective bargaining for home care providers for Medicaid recipients. The 2013 law called the Individual Providers of Direct Support Services Representation Act…

As posted June 19, 2013 at http://online.wsj.com As the population ages, more people are being paid by the government to care for the elderly in their homes. That has prompted unions to try to organize more such workers, who typically receive modest wages and few or no benefits. But others question whether these workers even…